Hello Everyone, Here's the latest from BCcampus OpenEd. Looking for students to submit short smartphone recordings on their open education views. All entries will be compiled into one video and shown at the OE Global Conference 2019<https://conference.oeconsortium.org/2019/> in Milan, Italy. Deadline: September 30, 2019. For details, see OE Global Conference<https://sfu-bccampus.cmail19.com/t/d-l-xvhhdd-utirtjhrt-jh/> on the BCcampus Events page. New book added to the B.C. Open Textbook Collection * New ABE open textbook, published by BCcampus: Composition and Literature: A Handbook and Anthology<https://open.bccampus.ca/browse-our-collection/find-open-textbooks/?uuid=9356a8ab-4970-4586-adfc-48450e8146a8&contributor=&keyword=&subject=> * New edition: Chemistry: Atoms First - 2e (OpenStax)<https://open.bccampus.ca/browse-our-collection/find-open-textbooks/?uuid=f203950f-08f5-41a1-a930-4bd61e34dca7&contributor=&keyword=&subject=> * New edition: Chemistry - 2e (OpenStax)<https://open.bccampus.ca/browse-our-collection/find-open-textbooks/?uuid=cfcf2c49-fbed-4945-9ccb-914d48ea145f&contributor=&keyword=&subject=> * Elementary Algebra (OpenStax)<https://open.bccampus.ca/browse-our-collection/find-open-textbooks/?uuid=2b7cb44a-7098-48ed-944c-4f5ac5692bb4&contributor=&keyword=&subject=> * Introduction to Web Accessibility<https://open.bccampus.ca/browse-our-collection/find-open-textbooks/?uuid=996898a2-8cbf-4e5d-89fb-d4b3fc2787b8&contributor=&keyword=&subject=> (published by Ryerson) * New edition: forall x: An Introduction to Formal Logic - Fall 2019 Edition (Calgary)<https://open.bccampus.ca/browse-our-collection/find-open-textbooks/?uuid=843aa250-9b7d-4301-befc-c44a7c3af4ce&contributor=&keyword=&subject=> - This will be replacing the 2018 edition, scheduled removal Feb 1 * College Mathematics for Everyday Life<https://open.bccampus.ca/browse-our-collection/find-open-textbooks/?uuid=c2fe86af-49b8-4927-b870-c6a805a436d3&contributor=&keyword=&subject=> Support resources updates * See new Appendix B: Pressbooks Catalogues<https://opentextbc.ca/pressbooks/back-matter/appendix-b/> in the Pressbooks Guide. Several post-secondary institutions in Canada and the U.S. have established their own instances of Pressbooks and, many, host a catalogue of open textbooks and other OER within that instance. Several of these are listed here alphabetically by province or state. Open Ed updates * Announcing BCcampus’ 2019 Open Education Sustainability Grant Recipients<https://bccampus.ca/2019/09/11/announcing-bccampus-2019-open-education-sustainability-grant-recipients/> * Rajiv Jhangiani, of KPU, has created slide decks to accompany the open textbooks Principles of Social Psychology, 1st International edition<https://open.bccampus.ca/browse-our-collection/find-open-textbooks/?uuid=66c0cf64-c485-442c-8183-de75151f13f5&contributor=&keyword=&subject=> and Principles of Social Psychology<https://open.bccampus.ca/browse-our-collection/find-open-textbooks/?uuid=d0a98b76-9907-41d8-88a3-52e94c003939&contributor=&keyword=&subject=>, now posted by each as ancillary resources. The following chapters in the OER by Discipline Directory have been updated: * Arabic<https://opentextbc.ca/oerdiscipline/chapter/arabic/> * Book/Textbook/Journal Collections and Publishers<https://opentextbc.ca/oerdiscipline/chapter/book-textbook-collections/> * English Language Learning (ELL)<https://opentextbc.ca/oerdiscipline/chapter/english-as-a-second-language/> * General OER Repositories<https://opentextbc.ca/oerdiscipline/chapter/general-oer-repositories/> * Pedagogy and Instructional Design<https://opentextbc.ca/oerdiscipline/chapter/pedagogy-id/> * Psycholog<https://opentextbc.ca/oerdiscipline/chapter/psychology/> We are looking for Subject Matter Experts (SME) from B.C. or other parts of Canada to review textbooks being considered for the B.C. Open Textbook Collection<https://open.bccampus.ca/find-open-textbooks/>. See the list of Books open for review by Canadian faculty<https://opentextbc.ca/oerdiscipline/front-matter/b-c-open-textbook-collection-books-under-review/>. Contact bookreviews(a)bccampus.ca<mailto:bookreviews(a)bccampus.ca> if you are interested in providing an SME review. Help us identify the gaps Contact opentext(a)bccampus.ca if you would like to see open textbooks made available for specific subject areas in the B.C. Open Textbook Collection<https://open.bccampus.ca/find-open-textbooks/>. In particular, we'd like to hear of topics in these areas: business, early childhood education (ECE), health, STEM (science, technology, engineering, math), and trades. For the most current open education information, take a look at these continuously updated directories: * Information Directory<https://opentextbc.ca/openedinfo/> - Research, articles, blogs, books related to open education in Canada, the U.S., Global North, and Global South regions * Post-Secondary Directory<https://opentextbc.ca/postsecondary/> - An inventory of all things open for each post-secondary institution in B.C., and every province and territory in Canada Regards, The BCcampus OpenEd team Lauri Aesoph Manager, Open Education [https://bccampus.ca/files/2018/10/dotted-line.jpg] Cell: 250-893-0258 • Email: laesoph(a)bccampus.ca<mailto:laesoph(a)bccampus.ca> Twitter: @lauriaesoph<https://twitter.com/lauriaesoph> • Skype: lauri.aesoph • LinkedIn: lauri.aesoph<https://www.linkedin.com/in/lauri.aesoph/> BCcampus.ca<https://bccampus.ca/> • @BCcampus<https://twitter.com/BCcampus> • #BCcampus<https://twitter.com/hashtag/BCcampus?src=hash> I acknowledge that the land on which I work and live is the traditional territory of the Lkwungen-speaking people.